Watts Martin's Revar once again, a splash page from the second story of the trilogy, 'The Lighthouse'. At the time I did this I was quite pleased with it. Looking at it now makes the veins in my forehead twitch. So many things wrong. The ships in the background are monsters indeed, and there are perspective issues beyond counting. Most of all, unlike the other pieces in this series, I really feel this one is too pale, too lacking in contrast between the hard ink-edges and the graphite 'paint'. I need to find a decent scan of the 'On The Rocks' cover page. This was done using powdered graphite stirred into alcohol, then painted gently on and smudged around with a brush. A lot of detail is lost (the feathering where the pale ventral fur on her cheek meets the darker tone of her facial fur particularly strikes me as being cruelly abused by the scanner) but I should have made it higher contrast to begin with. If I were to do it all over again, I'd probably layer about another half-cup of graphite on this to bring up the contrast and enhance the range of fades from light into shadow. It was an experiment, but then everything was...

And yet...And yet. I still like this piece enough to post it. Go figure.